The Taliban does not want to share power with warlords and corrupt former officials and neither do Afghans.
Obaidullah Baheer
Obaidullah Baheer is a lecturer of Transitional Justice at the American University in Afghanistan. He holds a postgraduate degree in International Rel... ations from the University of New South Wales, Australia. His research was titled “A Study of the Ideational and Structural Factors Hindering Negotiations with the Taliban”.
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